Close encounter of the copperhead kind.

[GA Bowhunter]

Kill that POS. I know you snake lovers hate that. But it’s poisonous and has little value to a human getting bit.


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Venomous.

[Huntindad]

What he said[emoji3516][emoji3516][emoji3516] but I do put dirt all around the bottom for that and to keep breeze out that likes to float my sent out the window. No snakes yet.


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this is what I do as well.

[Riceguy]

We are covered up in copperheads around here. I don't think you can keep them out of a blind.

A dude in south Georgia(where I hear copperheads are rare) just got bite while he was hunting. Medical bills are over 200k.
https://www.gon.com/news/copperhead-...n-memorial-wma

I’ve never been one to harp on this, but the medical system is just ridiculous. 200K to get treated for a bite, completely criminal.

[mikerosa]

Venomous.

My bad

But to an Italian ? That venom is poison [emoji3517]

Lol


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[okrattler]

We are covered up in copperheads around here. I don't think you can keep them out of a blind.

A dude in south Georgia(where I hear copperheads are rare) just got bite while he was hunting. Medical bills are over 200k.
https://www.gon.com/news/copperhead-...n-memorial-wma

8 vials costs him that much? That's just insane. Hell it's cheaper to die or lose some digits.

[blatallic]

I almost stepped on one this weekend. I always walk with a walking stick and wave it in front of me, especially if its an area with high grass. When I waved it to my right side, something moved very fast by my right foot. I recognized the pattern right away. Freaked me out for sure because I was going to step on it. That was too close for my comfort. I decided to take another route (the grass was very tall in that part of the woods).

[Acameron52]

Exactly why I don’t hunt out of pop ups on the ground.

[bearintex]

Kill that POS. I know you snake lovers hate that. But it’s poisonous and has little value to a human getting bit.


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*venomous

Edit- tried to delete but I don't see the option?

[GA Bowhunter]

I’ve never been one to harp on this, but the medical system is just ridiculous. 200K to get treated for a bite, completely criminal.

I concur.

We don't have a health insurance problem. We have a health care cost problem.

[GA Bowhunter]

8 vials costs him that much? That's just insane. Hell it's cheaper to die or lose some digits.

I need to start milking my copperheads.

[okrattler]

I need to start milking my copperheads.

I guarantee you if I got a bill in the mail that looked like that (assuming I didn't have a coronary) I'd be sitting a bucket of them in the lobby at the hospital so they could replenish their supply. Either that or they'd have to put it on my tab. That's just stupidness.

[sixwarden9]

It took me few days to circle back to this as we were running our TYHP youth hunt this past weekend, man was the weather nice. I agree on the elevate, I have been wanting to build a bow box blind at this one spot because the only way to hunt it is from the south and being inside helps control the stink. I thing short term I am going to try piling dirt around the edges as Jen-Man and Huntindad said.

Those that elevate your pop ups are you doing it with a wooden platform, how are you securing it?

[SaltwaterSlick]

Most pop ups have a flap at the bottom around the edges. If I'm putting a pop up out for a season long placement, I take a shovel and be sure those flaps are facing to the outside of the blind and I cover them completely with dirt. It keeps the snakes and bugs out pretty good. I check it good every time I hunt the blind for the season...

[Jspradley]

Venomous.

Poison you bite, venom bites you

[dphillips62]

I quit hunting pop ups on the ground when I found 2 Cottonmouths in my pop up. I did not see them until it got light enough to see I ended up cutting a new door out the front. that was a couple of years ago I don't believe deer come back to that location on my place as much of a commotion as I made.